1 Vigne, Kashmir,
2 i, 212.
3 Burnes, Pol. Power
4 of the Sikhs, 4;
5 Masson, Bal. Afc.
6 Panj. i, 85.
7 E.LC. Ms. Doc.
8 1E.I.C. Ms. Doc.
9 Masson, Kalat,
10 314; Bal. Afg.
11 Panj. ii. 68.
12 2 Jour. As. Soc.
13 1842, Grif.
14 Bar. and Ther.
15 Obs, in Afg.
16 68 MUR—MUS.
17 frontier, in a fine grassy plain at the southern base of the moun-
18 tains surrounding Kahun. Lat. 29° 1’, long. 68° 58’.
19 MURU WURDWUN, in the north of the Punjab, a long,
20 deep valley, with sides of gneiss and mica slate. Down this
21 valley a river of the same name flows and joins the Chenaub at
22 Kishtawar. The valley contains a village, also bearing the same
23 name, opposite which the Nabog Nye Pass, twelve thousand feet
24 high, leads into Kashmir. Lat. 33° 50’, long. 75° 26’.
25 MURWUT, in Afghanistan, an extensive, beautiful, and
26 fertile valley, on the west side of the Indus, and south of the
27 valley of Bannoo. It has on the west the lofty Suliman range,
28 and on the north the snow-clad peaks of Sufaid Koh. Though
29 exposed to the incursions of the marauders of the neighbouring
30 mountains, it is so productive of grain and other necessaries of
31 life, that it is thickly peopled. Society is here in a singularly pri-
32 mitive state, as the people have no general government, each
33 village being under its own independent chief, and acknowledg-
34 ing no other authority. The valley is sometimes visited’ by
35 an expedition of the Sikhs from the Derajat, who levy an enforced
36 tribute from the inhabitants. Murwut, the chief place, is little
37 more than a village. Lat. 33° 10’, long. 71° 15’.
38 MUSTOEE, in Afghanistan, a village in the Daman, situate
39 on an offset of the Indus, three miles from the main stream, and
40 about fifty miles south of Dera Ghazee Khan. Lat. 29° 29', long.
41 70° 48’. .
42 MUSTUNG,! in Beloochistan, a town on the great route
43 from Kelat to Shawl, and seventy miles north of the former
44 town. It contains about four hundred houses, surrounded with a
45 crenated mud wall. The neighbouring country is probably the
46 richest part of Beloochistan, having in summer a mild and salu-
47 brious climate and producing the finest fruits in abundance,
48 besides grain, madder, and tobacco. Winter, however, brings
49 considerable cold, and on this account the wealthier inhabitants,
50 at the approach of that season, emigrate to the warm district of
51 Cutch Gundava. The present town has replaced a more ancient
52 one, the citadel of which was destroyed by Ahmed Shah; the
53 ruins are observable on a mound close to the wall. The height
54 above the sea cannot be less than 5,700 feet, as there is a slight
55 ascent in travelling to this place from Shawl,? which has an eleva-
56 tion of 5,563 feet. Lat. 29° 48’, long. 66° 47’.